Hank Erwin

Henry Eugene "Hank" Erwin Jr. (2 April 1949-) was a member of the Alabama Senate (R-14) from 2002 to 2010 and a Christian evangelical.

Biography
Henry Eugene Erwin Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1949, and he worked in broadcasting in the 1970s. In 1973, following the controversial desegregation of Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Erwin - who was working as a Southern Baptist traveling sports chaplain - was invited to speak to the school's football team as a "motivational speaker". He invited the team to commit their lives to Jesus and to join together in prayer, and 40 teammates from all races came together in love, a miraculous display of racial unity in a city torn apart by racism. From 2002 to 2010, he served as a Republican state senator, and he lost a bid for the Lieutenant-Governor's seat in 2010.